Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 450, Entry 09 Pronounced lou. Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining and Analyzing Characters): To pull and gather. Erya (Approaching Elegance): To gather. Note: It is similar to current speech meaning to restrain and gather. Also: To pull or lead. Mencius (Mengzi): Climbing over the wall of the neighbor to the east and pulling their virgin daughter. Also: The five hegemons were those who coerced the feudal lords to attack other feudal lords. Also: Pronounced lou. Also: To drag or pull. Alternatively: To pull in order to straighten out. Often written as the variant form (lou). Textual research: Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining and Analyzing Characters): To pull and gather. Also to pull. Also to take. Mencius (Mengzi): The five hegemons were those who coerced the feudal lords to attack other feudal lords. Also: Yangzi Fangyan (Local Dialects): To hold in one's arms is called lou. Mencius (Mengzi): Climbing over the wall of the neighbor to the east and pulling their virgin daughter. Correction note: Regarding the claim that holding in one's arms is called lou, this phrase does not exist in Yangzi Fangyan. Furthermore, the Zhao commentary on both instances of the character lou in Mencius defines them as to pull. Therefore, the text from Also to pull to pulling their virgin daughter has been revised to: Erya (Approaching Elegance): To gather. Note: It is similar to current speech meaning to restrain and gather. Also to pull. Mencius (Mengzi): Climbing over the wall of the neighbor to the east and pulling their virgin daughter. Also: The five hegemons were those who coerced the feudal lords to attack other feudal lords.